Carl Joseph Luther

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Carl Joseph Luther Alpine skiing Ski jumping
nation German EmpireThe German Imperium German Empire
birthday November 11, 1882
place of birth Euskirchen or Giessen
job Sports journalist
author
date of death June 6, 1968
Place of death Munich
Career
discipline Alpine skiing
ski jumping
 

Carl Joseph Luther (often also CJ Luther or CIL ; born November 11, 1882 in Euskirchen or Gießen , † June 6, 1968 in Munich ) was a German ski and folding boat pioneer , sports journalist and author.

Life

Carl Joseph Luther's parents were brewer Joseph Luther (* 1849) and Maria Anna Dengler.

From 1897, Luther attended the grammar school of the Swiss monastery in Einsiedeln . He then studied art history and journalism at the University of Freiburg im Üechtland . In October 1905 he went to Rigi for health reasons , where he met the skiers Thorleif Björnstad and Leif Berg and learned to ski. From then on he was active as an athlete himself and wrote about skiing as a journalist, including for the newspapers Der Bund and Deutsche Alpenzeitung . As editor of the Alpenzeitung, he was supposed to edit a report by the folding boat inventor Alfred Heurich and so came into contact with the folding boat sport in 1907 and became an enthusiastic supporter. He propagated the advertising slogan: skiing paddler and paddling skier . In Munich he founded the magazine Der Winter , for which he designed a total of 28 volumes. In 1908 he was the winner of the German ski championships. In 1911 he published the book School of Snow Running , which was translated into several languages. In 1913 and 1914 he won a silver cup when jumping on the Holmenkollbakken . He was also the first instructor of the German Ski Association . At the beginning of the First World War, he gave the Bavarian king advice on the use of skiing in war, which led to the formation of ski corps.

Luther married Agnes Volger in 1914. After the war he worked as a ski instructor and planner of ski jumps . He was involved in the planning of the ski jumps in Ernstthal , Schreiberhau , Baiersbronn , Berchtesgaden , Oberstdorf , Marienbad , Munich Icking and Garmisch-Partenkirchen . From 1919 to 1922 and 1935 he was director of the folding boat department of the German Touring Club (DTC) in Munich. For the DTC he organized the first Isar regatta from Bad Tölz to the Floßlände in Munich in 1921 , a kind of canoe rally that lasted until 1993. In 1923 he published the handbook canoeing and river hiking .

He is the inventor of the down sleeping bag .

Luther died in 1968 and was buried in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, his last place of residence.

He received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon in 1966 and was an honorary member of the German Ski Association , the German Canoe Association and the German Camping Club . He published more than 50 books and brochures.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Moravetz (1987)
  2. ^ Munzinger
  3. ↑ The Hadernkahn, History of the Folding Boat, by Ursula and Christian Altenhofer, page 144
  4. ↑ Helmerův Schanze Marienbad on Skisprungschanzen.com
  5. ↑ Hans Elberle : The ski jumps in the gravel pit , accessed on December 1, 2013
  6. ↑ Icking on Skisprungschanzen.com
  7. ↑ Isar Regatta website DKV
  8. ↑ Exhibition catalog 90 years of Pionierwerft Bad Tölz, page 49
  9. ↑ a b Artist Lexicon of the Werdenfelser Land
personal data
SURNAME Luther, Carl Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luther, CJ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ski pioneer, sports journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Euskirchen or Giessen
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1968
Place of death Munich